DLF Christmas Toy Drive
Showing Love to our Children & Young People diagnosed with cancer & their families - December 2023.
Thank You to the Children of St Laurence Primary School Cowley, for designing these beautiful and thoughtfully worded cards.
Grateful to share in the lives of some of our children in the community.
Spreading Love and bringing smiles to children with brain tumours, other cancers and their families at Christmas.
Christmas is an exciting time of the year that promises a wonderful feeling of glad tidings, kindness and merry making for many children. Every child deserves to share in this special joy as many families wind down the year and make special plans to celebrate the Christmas festivities together.
Sadly, this is not easily the case for our Children & Young People diagnosed with brain tumours, other cancers and their families. We know that life changes when a child is diagnosed with a brain tumour or cancer. For many of our brave children & young people life-saving complex treatment, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, scans & clinics must continue. This exerts serious pressure on their emotional health and family wellbeing. Sadly, not every family remains a unit through this and many parental relationships breakdown.
Since 2020, we have gifted our children and their siblings with brand new toys, to show them love and remind them how precious they are to us as a community. It was a special opportunity to bring joy to our children at home, at a time of year when negative and positive emotions run high.
Childhood cancer impacts our children, their parents, siblings, family & friends from the point of diagnosis onwards. As regular routines stop and medical care takes over, we make it our duty to let them know how much we care, especially at Christmas.
We are proud to celebrate the children from Cowley St Laurence primary school, who took time out to think of meaningful messages to share with our children on the cancer ward. Excellent gesture of love and kindness. Pay It Forward!
Thank You Steve Tuckwell MP (Uxbridge & South Ruislip), Rachel Xuereb & Dr Alan McGlennan Chief Medical Officer Hillingdon Hospital.
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Thank You Laura and Stacey Bumblebee Ward Play Nurses - Hillingdon Hospital.
"Hello Daniella Logun Foundation,
Thank you so much for Jayden’s and the twins Christmas presents. They have been poorly with the flu. Only just gone back to school. When they are back from school, I will send you a picture of them holding their presents. Thank you so much. This will put a smile on their faces when they come back from school."
Chetna
(DLF Parent Hillingdon)
Spreading the Love to our children & their families
- December 2022
"Thank you for our Christmas presents. We love it (3 blowing kisses emojis)."
DLF Children (Hillingdon)
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"Received a parcel & thank u my son love it."
Mansh (DLF Parent Ealing)
"Thank you so much for Brett's presents, he loves them (heart emoji) xx."
Jill
(Alder Hey Mum)
Thank You DLF & Brunel Volunteers.
"Received a parcel today. Waiting for the kids to wake up and open it xx"
"They loved it. Thank you! x"
Sarah
(Midlands)
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Thank You Tesco Yiewsley.
Spreading the Love - DLF Toy Drive December 2021.
Please help us spread the Love and bring a smile to a child with a brain tumour or cancer this Christmas with our DLF Toy Drive...
Can you imagine spending your Christmas & New Year confined to a hospital bed, connected to a multitude of tubes or medical machines or worse still, fighting for your life, as the world around you celebrates and makes merry. Not something anyone would want to particularly think about. However, those are some of the circumstances many of our children with brain tumours, other cancers and their families in North West London face today. As Dannie experienced in 2015. This is unacceptable.
A brain tumour or cancer diagnosis impacts the child, their parents, siblings, family & friends and the
grief begins from the point of diagnosis. As regular routines stop, the joy, laughter and colour of life as they once knew it fades and they find themselves in new and uncertain settings of specialist clinical care. School, sports, sleep overs, birthday parties, holidays, day's out, shopping trips, fun activities, eating out, cinema trips, Christmas, Valentine's, Easter, Spring & Summer time - everything changes and grief, anxiety, uncertainty, fear, doubt, a sense of isolation sets in.
This is unacceptable. For many children, their close friends feel uncertain as to what to do and over time simply stop visiting. Children with brain tumours or cancers need to remain in specialist diagnostic centres for significant periods, to ensure they receive the complex clinical care they need.
Mums, dads, grand parents or primary carers will need to stop working to live and care for their children at hospital, home or hospice. As family income drops, so does financial independence and 95% of families will seek out state support. This a spiralling cycle that needs to be controlled. You can help us start here and support a child with cancer.
Dannie's Gift Boxes
We know that cancer changes everything, so we don't take special occasions, memorable dates, milestones, family events or seasonal celebrations for granted. We always want our Children and Young People with brain tumours, other cancers and their families to remember just how special and loved they are. SO whenever it matters to them, we try to offer a wide range of practical support resources to meet that unique need - whether at home, at hospital or at hospice.
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Dannie's Gift Box (DGB)
Our welcome gift box to all our new children & their families, with information leaflets and personal care items to support them in this whole new world.
DLF Toy Drive
Our DLF Toy Drive offers our Children and Young People a brand new toy, tech, game or gift voucher that promises to put a smile on that child's face.
DLF Food Drive
It's about helping you make healthier choices, get your 7-A-Day and rebuild health when it matters most and is often hardest! Healthier food, more accessibly.
Spreading the Love - DLF Toy Drive December 2021.
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Spreading the love at Christmas time
Help us reach a child diagnosed with a brain tumour or other cancers and their siblings at Christmas time.
Thank you Cathy, Edward, Edit & Dylan for your lovely gifts to us xxx
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Help Us Reach More Children & Their Families Today.